本书讲述了罗马从公元前753年建城到公元476年灭亡之间1200多年的历史。这段历史在现代西方社会形成发展的过程中扮演了重要角色。作者将罗马文明的方方面面通过一个个奇妙生动的故事呈现出来，读者不仅能够对罗马的语言、文学、政治、建筑、哲学以及法律体系的发展历程有所了解，更可以探知创造这些制度和文明的古罗马人的思想和生活。

SAP的FI模块和CO模块是SAP ERP系统的核心模块，很少有人写书深入介绍。作者根据自己的实际经验写成此书，不仅一步步地详细介绍FI及CO模块的配置过程，而且使用真实世界中的例子，提供了富有实际意义的解决方案。你可以学到FI企业结构、统驭账、替换和验证、自动科目分配、应付账款和应收账款、资产会计、关账处理、信贷管理、获利能力分析等各个环节的内容，之后就能够定制自己的ERP系统，以满足会计、财务、计划和报账等需求。此外，还可以将所学内容应用到SAP商务套件中的其他功能区。
本书适合各层次的SAP开发人员、ERP技术人员和财务人员阅读。

In 1946, Ove Arup, a leading engineer of the twentieth century, founded a firm of consulting engineers that brought to fruition such iconic structures as the Sydney Opera House, the Olympic Village in Beijing, London's Millennium Bridge, the Beaubourg Centre in Paris, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, and Kansai Airport in Japan, among many others. Devoted to a 'commonsense' reform of engineering and architectural practice, Arup (1895-1988) pioneered the way for modern architects and engineers to collaborate successfully and responsibly on large projects. This is the first biography of the great and versatile engineer, complete with some 80 historic photographs that have never been published before. Peter Jones, the first researcher to have full access to the vast private Arup archives, tells the complete story of Ove Arup's extraordinary life, his social, aesthetic, and environmental concerns, and his practical contributions during a period of political and technological upheaval. Jones also offers a revelatory new account of the Sydney Opera House and the character of those involved in its complex construction.

The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
In Design for Care, Peter Jones will:
Present a current presentation of compelling healthcare design and information issues, integrated by representative case studies, to help designers, managers, students and teachers better understand the field
Educate and stimulate this audience to innovate and design better services from a total systems perspective in current healthcare practice
Help this audience understand the complexities, emerging opportunities, and uncertainties as indicated from the collective experience of leading edge design and research thinkers

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ...half-melted, lumpy'. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should 'use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something...it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech'. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, 'imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice'.